Six Flags St. Louis - 55th Anniversary Celebration

 

Welcome to the 55th Anniversary Celebration Weekend at Six Flags St. Louis

In the Palace Gardens you can find this fun photo op backdrop near the train station

A special 55th Anniversary Display has been set up in the Palace Lobby but just outside you can find this restored Moon Car

There is also this boat from the Log Flume

The first display you are greeted with inside is one that has descriptions of all of the original lands for the park

The next case has memorabilia for the Screamin' Eagle, which is celebrating 50 seasons this year

This case features the World Record plaque for Screamin' Eagle and photo of several of the coasters at the park

The middle cases feature a mock up of the entrance to Miss Kitty's Saloon

Here you can see different costumes for past shows

A salute to Hurricane Harbor

 A salute to all of the big shows the park has hosted in the past - including Dolly Parton

A Salute to Food Services and an award they won back in the day

Another exciting reveal for this weekend was the return of the Batmobile

This is the original 1993 Batmobile that debuted with the ride.  It has been in a lengthy refurbishment and actually just received tires today so that it could be driven into place

Now the question comes up, what happens to it next season?

Who knows.  Let's just enjoy it this season while we can

The final special event this weekend was the "Let's Celebrate 55 Seasons" Dance Party at the Palace Porch featuring the Looney Tunes

It was great seeing so many characters out

The Dance Party takes place at 1pm, 3pm, and 5pm daily this weekend

It was a great day at the park.

Hopefully you can make it out this weekend to help celebrate 55 years of Six Flags St. Louis

Hurricane Harbor St. Louis - Park Update

 

Welcome to Hurricane Harbor St. Louis

Just so you know, it is still not operating at capacity

It is convenient that they have a Guest Services booth in the waterpark now

New stage going in near the wave pool

We mentioned it last week, but the new paint jobs look great.  Here's Big Kahuna

and here are the tube slides.  The colors really pop now

They really cleared out this area on the island in the middle of the lazy river (which was open).  It looks like you could just jump in since there is no fencing here

Six Flags St. Louis - Park Update

 

A new addition to the park icon is the Enchanted Parks plate at the bottom

Something we forgot to get a photo of last week is the completely redone loading platform at Thunder River.  All new wood.  So much nicer.

Some new Screamin' Eagle souvenirs at Flags

I'm not really sure why these boxes were added, but there are new "props" next to the Studio Store

Here is the new home of the Discount Store since its former home is now the permanent Character Meet and Greet location for the park in Palace Gardens

Until next time

Oasis - Construction Update

 

The Vekoma Rebound Family Boomerang known as The Shootout has been completely erected.  The coaster features a reverse lift hill out of the station and then a twisting figure-8 course before going up a spike and doing the entire course backwards

This is the exact same layout as the one at Kings Island and is only the third Vekoma Family Boomerang built in the States (with the other besides Kings Island being at Holiday World).

This makes the second attraction installed with at least 10 more to go.

Hopefully the Vekoma Suspended Family Coaster goes vertical next.  It will have a layout similar to Dragonflier at Dollywood